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Originally Posted by SaintessHeart
Tibet and Taiwan don't belong to them in the modern world because they are no longer ideologically similar to them. What they are doing is no different from hegemonic oppression.
+1 : It is interesting to see a view like that although I don't agree with it. I don't see alot of people who think deeply about issues like this these days.
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Well Taiwan isn't solely based on history of historical chinese borders, it also does have to do with national security, as in chinese sea boundaries, so if you take the spy plane incident during 2001, when the American spy plane was doing what knows over chinese seas, if taiwan had been recognized by the world as a free nation, then it would have meant that china had no jurisdiction over that spy plane even though they clearly were gathering intelligence.
Your idea of ideologically similar, would have ripped the united states of america into three distinct nations by now, if the rhetoric used by the tea party is to be believed. And if it were true that ideologically disimilar would be splintered, than for the most part the world would be filled with countries dedicated either to their town/village or the family level, because if you just look at the diveristy in china, there are 55 smaller sub groups within the chinese population that are distinctly unique to those regions, yet they all live under the chinese government whether it was during the feudal period or modernization via communism and puppet government established after the withdrawal of the super powers post opium wars.